#larsify wrapped

[dracolizardlars]

Y'all didn't get THIS statistic from your stupid Spotify, did ya?

Fun idea I had to add this information to my database record of everything I've listened to. Got reminded that Google Sheet's tools for graphs are dogshit (I don't have Microsoft Office anymore).

The pie chart is actually showing the total DURATION I spent listening to songs in each category. Male is a little bit over-estimated because I absolutely could not be arsed to go through and label every single Gorillaz song differently based on what collaborators were singing on them. Also, the % nonbinary is literally JUST Kae Tempest lol I love them

I genuinely think this level of male bias is caused by the music industry instead of my own taste btw, it could be a lot worse

[dracolizardlars]

It's that time of the year again where I pull out the year's worth of records of everything (music wise) I listen to and use it for the sole purpose of why I bother to write it down again: being able to join in with Spotify Wrapped as a certified Spotify Hater! For the third year running, I present to you all, Larsify Wrapped, 2023!

(Note I used to make these using Microsoft Excel for the data and PowerPoint for the visuals. I no longer have access to Microsoft Office so this took me 2.5 hours of suffering to make and the image editing is still much worse than my usual standard, but fuck it. Also due to Depression my actual recording of my listening has, for the first time, been falling off for the last few months so I DEFINITELY missed a few listens.)

[dracolizardlars]

So I did my own number-crunching of my full year of listening

Something I wanted to do that Spotify Wrapped didn't include this year (to fill you in, I do not use Spotify but manually keep a record of my listening; when Wrapped drops, I create a spoof of the whole thing) is this "calendar" of my most listened to albums per month. I think it's pretty cool when you make this visual representation. More whole-year listening stats in the form of Google Sheets screenshots under the cut.

My top 10 most listened albums of 2023 overall

Top 10 most listened ARTISTS (I regret none of spending almost exactly 22 hours listening to King Gizzard)

GHOST refers to this person, you should check out their music :3

And finally the top songs - these are sorted first by number of times I listened to them, then by duration to use as a "tie breaker", which is what makes Divers my Song Of The Year

My total "listening time" for the whole year ended up coming out at 205 hours by the way, but that's only what I bothered recording because I specifically chose to play that music - excluding whenever I put my music on shuffle, times my mum put on music in the house or car, and radio shows (I listen to several religiously)

[dracolizardlars]

BEHOLD, my Homebrew Not-Spotify Wrapped

For the second year running I manually recorded everything I listened to in a spreadsheet, and this year I included song durations as well so I could much more closely spoof Spotify Wrapped. Enjoy.

[dracolizardlars]

Spotify Wrapped dropped today so it's time for my 11 month long (so far) project of recording every song I listen to to bear fruit. Here's my DIY Wrapped (counting up to October 31st like Spotify does)

I might look into adding song durations into my data so I can do minutes listened and have a more definite ranking of my top artists next year or even by the actual whole year results I'm gonna do for this one cus it's dumb that Spotify Wrapped doesn't count two entire months and I don't have to be the same

[dracolizardlars]

I was looking at that relatively small female vocals slice thinking "that's cus I didn't listen to much Kate Bush or Curved Air this year" and then because I'm insane I ended up making one for last year as well to compare.

Turns out I listened to Kae Tempest SO fucking much last year that they have a significant slice of their own lmao XD But yes, I was right about the male/female split, it was less biased last year. 56% M, 25% F in 2022 vs 66% M, 19% F in 2023. King Gizzard and Gorillaz had me wrapped around their fingers even more than usual and I neglected most of the amazing female singers (except Joanna Newsom), what can I say?

Y'all didn't get THIS statistic from your stupid Spotify, did ya?

Fun idea I had to add this information to my database record of everything I've listened to. Got reminded that Google Sheet's tools for graphs are dogshit (I don't have Microsoft Office anymore).

The pie chart is actually showing the total DURATION I spent listening to songs in each category. Male is a little bit over-estimated because I absolutely could not be arsed to go through and label every single Gorillaz song differently based on what collaborators were singing on them. Also, the % nonbinary is literally JUST Kae Tempest lol I love them

I genuinely think this level of male bias is caused by the music industry instead of my own taste btw, it could be a lot worse